Jeffrey Epstein Last Words and “Suicide Note”

On the evening of August 9, 2019, Jeffrey Epstein was on suicide watch inside the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC), a federal jail in lower Manhattan. He requested a phone call and told MCC staff it was to his mother. Guards escorted him to a shower area landline typically reserved for attorney calls, which are legally exempt from monitoring to protect attorney-client privilege.

His mother, Paula Epstein, had died on April 1, 2004. She was 85.

The call went to Karyna Shuliak, a Belarusian-born dentist living in Manhattan. She was his girlfriend and the primary beneficiary of his estate. Two days earlier he had signed a trust document leaving her the bulk of a multi-hundred-million-dollar estate including private islands.

The call was logged in basic terms but never recorded. MCC protocol required that non-legal calls by inmates in special housing be monitored. Treating this call as unmonitored was a policy violation later flagged by MCC leadership, according to the DOJ Inspector General report. There is no evidence a recording was ever made or later destroyed.

No one knows what was said. The call lasted somewhere between 15 and 30 minutes depending on the source.

Epstein was found dead in his cell shortly after. We have no idea what Epstein said to her.

The Note

A handwritten note was found in Epstein’s cell after his death. It was written in blue pen on yellow legal paper. It read:

“Kept me in a locked shower stall for 1 hr. Noel sent me burnt food. Giant Bugs crawling over my hands. NO FUN!!”

Those are technically his last words, as that is the last thing we have recorded from him.

Many have pointed out the obvious. A man on suicide watch was given a pen? Inmates on suicide watch are typically stripped of anything that could be used for self-harm, begging a very serious question: Was it actually a homicide?